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Delightful Awesome Sit 5

This was the little doe that walked within 10 feet of me!
This is the buck I saw a minute before he stepped out into the field where I saw him. Picture off the Cuddelink, but boy that’s blurry!
Much better picture! Pretty sure this is the buck I seen last night coming back where he came from.

Friday October 3, 2020

The weather is getting cooler, so I wanted to hunt tonight

Plus, I had some bucks below the house the night before.

So, it was my hope one of these big guys would have bedded

down below the house and would pay me a visit tonight.

Mud Duck is in for an oil change and maintenance.

So, I had to take princess (Dodge truck) down to the hunting spot.

It was a nice walk in

A little longer than normal because I had to park further away.

The water is down as there is no flooding only one little puddle

I kick up one deer as I am walking in, a doe

She is in the large food plot

My new stand is looking beautiful than ever. 

Once I was settled in

I couldn’t help but notice the large amount of bird movement.

All I could see were yellows and blues

There were so many birds I was having a hard time watching them all.

Several of what I think were yellow rumped warblers

And……blue birds.  Lots of blue birds.

And then just like that they were gone.

Maybe migrating through maybe not, I have no idea

Another doe out in the big food plot

To far away to shoot

About 15 minutes later a small doe comes out from behind me and to the right of me

I happened to be looking through the binoculars into the woods to the right of me

And the doe walks into my line of sight in the binoculars

She came out from the willows from behind me

She cautiously walked thru the small food plot

And then pranced within 10 feet of my blind

My long bow shooting window is open and she walks past that

 Then she was out of site

I knew she had went into the woods

As she made the decision in her small tiny brain that it was safer to walk thru the

Woods to the big food plot

Than to walk down the path in front of me

Smart girl

For the next hour to the left of me 5 or 6 doe and fawn eat in the big food plot

They continue to eat in the field for the next 53 minutes, until closing time.

The last 5 minutes of my hunt, there is this doe in the big food plot and she is very curious

Always trying to look in in my direction.

I believe she want to come down the path in front of me to the small food plot.

She would creep closer and closer

And we would just sit and look at each other.

But the exciting news of the night was…….

I saw a buck

Roughly 630 he peeked his head out from the hidden path

I thought I had seen movement through the woods in the direction of the hidden path a while earlier.

Plus, we have a Cuddelink camera on this hidden path, as I was hoping to get him on camera.

Well we did it turned out to be blurry, go figures

Anyways he peeked his head out, he had a tall rack but it looked small

Not small small, but medium small.

I at the 1st sight made the decision he was not the guys I wanted to shoot

If he got within range.

And of course, he never did

He was probably 55 plus yards away(not very good at measurement)

He looked in my direction several time but wasn’t interested

He had other plans

He walked straight out from the path into the grassy area behind me

By the time I was able to get the binoculars on him, he was almost out of site

But then as I put the binos on him, he looked pretty enticing.

I was hoping for the next 23 minutes he might come back my way

Or circle around behind me in the willows

And come out on the other side of me to the big food plots but he didn’t

But I was already

The group of does and fawns munched the whole time in the big food plot

And the one curious little doe just would not give it up,

it’s well past closing she is 40 feet maybe form me

and she just stares in my direction

I slowly try to close the window as to not try to scare her

But she still does not leave

Even with me zippering the window closed. 

She is finally gone

Packed up and ready to go

It was quite dark already

And I could not see around me

The last few time I have hunted it was light enough to make out shadows

Not this walk out.

As I made my way around the last curve to my truck

There must have been a doe and fawn on the path

Who must not have seen me until last second

As they ran quite quick

It sounds like the doe ran into the cattails right next to be

Really made my heartbeat and I could hear little movement to my left in front of me

My guess the fawn

As I continue to walk the fawn must have just been in the woods to the left of me

As I walked past I could hear it rumbling. 

The boys made salmon, rice , and zucchini for supper

I realize I am a lucky girl

As I reflect back on the night

I have come to the realization that the stars must really have to align

In order for me to shoot a buck and I have seen bucks over the last 5 years.

Some shootable some not to my standards of course

Some close and some not,

But But But………

It must be a momentous minute when that right buck for me comes with in shooting distance,

How does that saying go right place right time?

Well until next time……..

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Intense Wisconsin Bow Season 2020 4th Sit!

Friday September 25 2020

4th sit!

Well it had been a windy day all day

So wasn’t really sure I should even hunt

Plus the skeeters were bad and the weather was warm

But its that Friday night high I suppose

I don’t know why I work all day and then come right home

Change and then go out hunting

Without getting a thing done at home

It was partly sunny all day

It was warmer

And I was worried about the skeeters

They have been terrible lately

I sat on the farm for the 1st time tonight

It it at the end of a grass waterway

Corn to the right of me

Beans to the left of me

Grass runway in front of me wide open

And a tree line and then corn behind me

It’s the Primos blind I like

But it had a rough tumble through the winter last year

And is not in very good shape

I like it, it is roomy

Marcus did a good job getting it set up

The wind was right for sitting here

I had ozoned my gear prior to going out

This is a new thing I am trying

I was going to short sleeve it

But changed my mind

I always long sleeve it

 But it’s warm

 I think my arms would be a dead giveaway to a deer

And I though the skeeters would just love to bite my arms

Glad I went with the long sleeve

As the skeeters were suffocating. 

The walk into the blind in long

It’s an easy walk just seems forever to get there

And I am always out of breath by the time I get there

Plus, I am always hot and sweaty

The skeeters were horrible as I walked in

Its like they lay and wait and as you pass them in the grass they would murder you

They were so strong that I would flail my arms and I would hit loads of them

The blind in surrounded by farm fields.

 It is actually in a valley between two fields with miles of farm fields behind me

And miles of farm fields in front of me and all around me

This is a  hot spot for bucks occasionally

We have had some nice ones on camera recentl

We always put  blind on the farm

This is the first time it has been in this place

Anyways all settled in

Got loaded and ready to rumble

Marcus said I should be ready for a fast quick shot

As I will not have much time

No matter what field they come out of I won’t have much time to react

They will basically be right on top of me

Well nothing happened upon me

Well I saw one squirrel

Heard a few birds, heard a mad squirrel and a crow, yup that it

But I didn’t see nothing as far as deer

You will have night like that

And this spot is one of those spots

Its hit or miss

At 640 I hear rumbling behind me that I cannot see

I am getting ready waiting for something to step out form the tree line behind me

but nothing did

The sun was bright and pretty as it went down

I could have sit there for hours watching that sun go down

Closing time was here before I knew it

Didn’t have much time to pack up as the skeeters had arrived for dinner

Dreaded the walk back

Yes, the skeeters

Surrounded me, I was just glad I couldn’t see how there may were

They walk was long

And let’s face it

I am not young and I am not physically fit

I counted to 100 a few times

Sang the ABC’s a few times as well

To distract me from the walk as well as the skeeters

The rest is history

Taco chili when I got home

And I looked forward to bedtime as I am not going to lie

My body was hurting from the walk

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3rd Sit!

Old School sit!

Saturday September  19 2020

3rd sit

Didn’t want to over hunt my new blind

And the wind wasn’t good for the farm

And we are a little behind with getting the other blinds out

And I really wanted to sit tonight as the weather was nice

And I always enjoy the hunt a tad bit more on a non-work night

And I had made the decisions that I was 90% not going to sit Sunday

Boy that is a lot of ands…..

Decided to go old school tonight

Sitting up on Mueller’s Hill

It’s a very large hill that overlooks 2 huge fields

And a huge marsh/cattails area

Followed by a tree line and then the rock river

This is a very high hill

That overlooks a very wide area.

Which is why I love it here

I can see far and wide

It is so pretty up here and so peaceful

I have been sitting on this hill for the last 5 years

And have seen many of action.

I sit halfway down this field

About a long a foot ball field maybe longer

Under a tree right in the middle of the field

It was good to be back in this little spot.

I have no blind or tree stand here

I prop myself up next to a tree to blend in

Anyways the weather was warm 65ish

But there was a cool light breeze

The hay field had been cut with in the last day or two

It was somewhere between halfway done and done

But omg the bugs

Skeeters I am guess

Swarms every time I stepped

There were so many you could hear them

I was a tad concerned as I did not want to spend my night with

These little assholes

Once I got to me destination yup the skeeters were bad there as well

I hunkered down and got ready for my sit

The skeeters welcomed me for the next 10 minutes or so

I started up the old thermal cell and eventually they all left

I cannot contribute this to the use of thermal cell yet

As it was windy and skeeters I imagine do not like wind

Plus, the lack of movement by myself may have tamed them down

I had a straggler here and there but for the most part

I was not bothered by the wicked pains

But kept the old thermal cell roaring

At 5 I can hear my good old friend owl in the distance

I love to hear owls……As it is a call I don’t hear very often

I find owls quite remarkable…….And wish I saw more of them

It was a around 530 that I spotted a mom and twins way down in the bean field

The beans are tall right now and the little munchkins could barely see over the top

But they ran and frolicked like children up, down, and  around the bean field for over an hour

As I watch the children play them der catbirds sing the distance

And at one point in the tree right next to me

A bird is quite angered that I am sitting here

That it screams at me for about 10 minutes

I am enjoying the crisp air

And looking down over the marsh at the beauty

Soaking in the change of the season that is underway

How green turns to brown in that ever so changing color.

Glad that my allergies are not acting up

Which I found very interesting

however I know I will pay for it tomorrow

It is getting close to closing time

My eyes on full alert

Knowing that this sit was more of a scouting mission than a hunt

As there has not been much trail camera activity in the area lately.

So, no big buck did make a presence

How ever a few minutes till closing time

2 racoons investigated the field below me

Having no idea that I am there.

Closing time…..I start to pack up……Taking care to be quite

So as not to disturb the raccoons

But the racoons don’t care or know I am here

They go about their business

I am all pack up and ready to walk back

I do a once over of the field

And I see a shadow by the woods

I could barely make it out through my binoculars as the woods behind is way too dark

I was able to see short antlers

A young man would be my guess

I watch him for a while and I think he sees me and turn and walks the other way

So, I leave for my long walk back through the field

The raccoons are not concerned as they continue on with their shenanigans

As I am walking just a few short steps from them

Guess the camo works

I get about a quarter way down the field and turn around

I always turn around a few times on my walks out

You never know what is back there

Well shit

That buck I thought turned and walked the other way

Was walking behind me

I can still barley make him out but he just walking almost right behind me

On the same path through the field

But he is still a way back

I turned to continue on

Because the skeeters have awoken from their slumber

As I turned off the field  onto the dirt road I looked back for a once over

And the buck was gone

It was a nice little sit

And I embraced it as I had in the back of my mind

That it will be a few days before getting to hunt again

Not one skeeter bite

Once I am home supper is ready

And I always enjoy telling the guys of my tails when I got back to the house

Ahhhh now it’s time to relax

And appreciate GODS many blessings!

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2nd Sit

Sun is out today! There is a deer over there, I promise!

Friday September 18 2020 2nd weekend after opening day.

The work week much less the workday couldn’t get over quick enough.  Even if I was working at home today, plus Marcus was on his day off.

I was totally pumped because the big buck was on camera in the vicinity of my blind late last night

I was hoping he hung out in the area and bedded down close by

But in all reality I knew he had moved over to the next field, through the huge corn field

And through the swamp and onto the neighbor’s woods, because if I were him that is what I would do

4:15 rolled around and I am flying around the house, trying to make sure I didn’t forget anything.

Ok what do I need to hunt:

Bow check

Arrows check

Backpack check

Release arrow check

Binoculars/range finder check

Bottle water check

Camo fleece check

Cloths, hat check

Boots don’t forget to take off the camo sandals check

Check I think I have everything

Ohhhh wait SD cards, got to check the trail camera on my way out

It was a chilly day……I mean sunny just a cool breeze

I think I am ready………..Marcus send me off with a kiss and a shoot straight comment

I hop in the mud duck(four wheeler)

As I drive down the road

I make a mental note to create a word document………Of the things I need for my hunts

Engine roaring

Fresh cool breeze on my face

Driving fast as the wind flows through my hair

Driving the mud duck down the road always feel so good

Speed, freedom, the rush, open air

Ahhhh!

The road into my stand was dry……..Sure, was glad to so that

Last week I drove through water…….It was flooded last week

Flooding drives the deer away

And that is always a fear this time of year

And the grassy drive wasn’t as muddy as I thought it would be

Actually, the whole curve was dry

Parked in front of the big bush so the deer can’t see the mud duck

Last time the area where I parked was flooded

Time to get ready…….Be quite I tell myself

Putting my pack back on is always a treat

Each time I do it

it gets easier…….It just heavy to toss over my back

Oh, the bugs were horrible…….skeeters I assume

Or some bug with wings………Swarms

Just tons of swarms as I walk in

I wonder why I didn’t  get out the thermal cell

And put it in my backpack yet

I always creep quietly to my blind

As I have to walk the outer edge on the big food

 To get to my blind

No other way to get there

Need to be quiet

The bedding area is on the other side of me

Grounds drier from last weekend

Food plot looks nice

I am about to make the curve to my blind

I always sneak because I walk right up on a small food plot

Don’t want to scare anything……All clear

Blind was a little warm

No puddles this time…….Getting all settled in

Shortly after I got in

Around 452 pm

Mom and fawn walk out into the big food plot

Near where I 1st walked in

They came from the cattails on the river side

Mom and fawn ate in the field for over a half hour

Up on that same notch as last time

I don’t think they saw me I mean they ate in the field for over a half hour

but Mom is smart she knows something is off

Ahhh the blind windows are open……..Moms aren’t stupid

Saw nothing for the next hour

But I sat their mesmerized by watching the flock of birds

Several flocks of blackbird I assume

Fly through the air

In their synchronized flight

Hundreds of them

Breaking into smaller flocks

And then I would see the bigger one

And wonder why they don’t all hook up together

They just flew all around above the cattails

Occasionally I would spot a lone bird

And wonder what flock he is trying to catch up too…….And what he is thinking

I wonder what all these birds flying in a synchronized dance…….Are thinking

And I am so content thinking about the birds

Such a peacefulness……that I actually smile

4 sandhills came into the big food plot

They had a little snack and walked to the cattails

Towards the ditch

I was trying to check for the injured one I had seen last week

As that was traumatizing to me

It could have been with that group……..They are gone now

Ohhhh and that darn cat bird tweeted almost the whole time

They birds were very active this evening

The sun was bright

And as I looked towards the sun I could see all the skeeters/bugs flying

Strangely the skeeters/bug did not bother me in the blind at all

So many bugs that it filled the air above the small food plot

It was quite a sight…….I wonder what kinds party theses bugs were having

About an hour in the winds picked up

And I was cold

Oh, wait I hear an owl in the distance

Back to being cold of course I didn’t take my fleece out of my backpack

When I first got in the blind like a responsible hunter

because I figured I would be fine

Nope I got really chilly

The wind was brisk

And I had at least an hour to sit yet

And didn’t let up

Mom and fawn came back out to the big food plot around 7

Made their way back over to that nob

They didn’t stay long

But soon they trotted away back into the cattails or bedding area and outta sight

It is getting close to closing time

As the sun goes down and nightfall creeps up

And you know in the back of your mind any second now a buck could peak his rack out

My heart skips a few beats over these next minutes

Waiting and watching

It always seems as though time stand stills during these last minutes towards closing time

And not a sound is made in the whole area around me

Eerily quiet and peaceful

In those minutes leading up to closing time

It is getting close

I look to the small field

And there is a doe

Barley visible with the darkness behind her

We made a brief eyeing and she trotted away

Baby was in front of her, but I missed baby cross the field

I sat the last few minutes…….And then its quitting time

Reminding myself the whole time I am packing up to not forget to check the cameras before I go

Packing up is always a chore and most night I am a hurry to get going

As supper is waiting and there are chores to be done

And I have been gone for a few hours

I don’t like that closing time right now is so late

By the time I walk out and drive home it will be close to 8

But nights, like tonight

There is not work tomorrow

Chores can wait until tomorrow

The weekend is here…….No real urgency……

I always feel a little more peace in my soul these nights

The fellla’s are back at home and chili is cooking

Which I was looking forward to as it was a slight brisk sit

I get back to the house to give my full report

I didnt see much

But there is no bad day in the woods

And I am reminded of my many blessings.

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Opening day!

A few pictures from my hunt! Not the best pictures when I am trying to go undetected!

 
 

Saturday September 12, 2020

1st sit

Opening day has arrived

I don’t normally sit in September

But I switched jobs earlier this year

Which resulted in Iess time off this year

Long story

Anyways

Let face it I am not a fan of getting up early to go out hunting

I mean there are days that I will but most I won’t

Why you ask, well I do things that make me happy

1st off there is nothing appealing to me to get up that early to hunt

It throws my whole days off for the rest of it anyways

Usually I will be so tired and less motivated

In return getting nothing accomplished

And let’s face it I have enough lazy days already

Maybe morning hunts are appealing to others

I don’t feel any less of a hunter because I do not get up in hunt mornings

I will once the rut begins and a few other days here and there

I am an evening hunter

So, the condition this evening where not ideal

It had misted and sprinkled most of the day

Plus, it had rained the last 3 days

It was hazy and cold

But I was itching to get out there

You know that adrenaline rush

You feel through your bones

Plus, I suppose I was excited to sit in my new blind

I wasn’t even sure I could get to my blind

As the week before the road was flooded

I decided to put on the old waders

And was just going to walk in through the water

Hoping the water hasn’t risen that high since last week

Wasn’t really hoping I would have to do this as I am not a pro walking in waders

Especially Marcus’s waders that are 5 times too big for me

I do not have my own

As walking in water in not something I particularly enjoy

I am not a duck hunter, yet either

As I pull out of the driveway it is misting

Enough as you can see it in the distance

So, it’s a good mist

The drive to my blind is still flooded

But it appears to have went down a bit

So, I drive through the water to get on the other side

So, I can walk to my blind

I parked in front of the bush against my better judgement

As I wanted to park behind

But it was flooded with water

As I ventured in mom and fawn were eating in the big flood plot to me right

They scattered quickly

The ground was mushy

And the skeeters were horrendous

I get to my blind and have to figure out a system as this is the first time

I have sat in a raised blind( I am afraid of heights)

Plus, I have my crossbow backpack on

Eventually I managed to get in the blind and get all set up

I was in the blind by 5(why so late you ask, that another blog entry for another day)

At 630ish a doe walked across the big food plot 100 yards plus away

 But appears to be on a mission

I assume it was mom from earlier going to find her child.

A short time later 2 sandhills are walking across the big food plot

Looks like an adult and child

The child wing looks hurt

It is acting suspicious

It eventually leaves the adult, which I find strange

And comes straight towards my blind

The wing looks broken

I can hear it making some type on call/noise

it walks right by me and on to the hidden path

No idea where the adult went

The wing looked broke but I am aware that cranes can fake an injury to avoid predators or deterred

Predators from other cranes

So, I wonder what is going on here

If this crane is faking it is a good actor/actress

I say a prayer for the crane

The skies are dark and bleak

And the clouds at times look like a sky will open up and it will storms

It never does

It mists from time to time

I hear noise behind me occasionally

I do not have any windows open behind me as it is all willows and I have no shot

Plus, I don’t want over exposure

I know for a fact that the deer bed in here as well

Hence the location of this blind

This area I am in is the bedding grounds

 for many of fawns over the years

See my other post about my blind(not up yet)

About 15 minutes later child crane and adult walk out on to the small food plot

Hang around for a minute or so and turn around back down the hidden path

I wonder to myself

What is up you guys

About 7 to my right on the other end of the small food plot

I see 2 deer frolicked toward to hidden path

Small deer

Then a doe comes out from the willows to my right

Behind me about 25 yards from the stand

She knows something is different

Something makes a noise below the blind

Its new it is working its kinks out

Well miss doe

Hears the sound and we play a staring game for 5

Well I notice at the back of the small food plot behind ma

There is a fawn eating on the bush

Ma is still standing about 25 yards out

I have no interest in shooting a doe at this point

Finally, baby runs over clumsily

And stands by mom

And then a teenager runs up from the hidden path

The hidden path goes into a hidden field

Obviously

So now I have a teenager, fawn and ma all looking at me

Waiting for me to just screw up enough that I move

Nope sorry not this time

Eventually after 5 minutes or so

They cautiously meander behind my blind and out of site

The teenagers get within 10 feet of me as there is a path in front of my blind

that the deer travel. 

I do not have any windows open to the front of the blind there is a big bush there

And I don’t like to overexpose myself

Plus, there isn’t that great of a shot there anyways

As the teenager gets to the left of the front of the blind he gets skittish and tramps away.

I figured mom and fawn went into the woods to walk around my blind to get to the big food plot

What its getting close to closing time

It is raining now

I start to back up

I won’t shoot a deer in the rain

I fear losing the blood trail

As I walk out the path about 10 feet from my blind towards to big food plot

I am met by a fawn about 10 feet from me

There is no other way to get back to the mud duck

One of us has to move

I stop and we admire each other for roughly 5 minutes

I flail my arms in the air letting baby know a threat is coming

I do this several times

But she just hangs out and looks at me

So, I slowly start walk towards the fawn

And eventually it decided it is time to move

The walk back to the mud duck is long as it is raining now

Not bad for opening day

I saw 5 deer tonight

Any night seeing deer is a good night

Plus, I got to see deer on opening night as well

Back home I share the stories of my hunt

Eat some dinner

Watch a show and off to bed I go.

(sadly, I write this entry a week after and have probably forgotten many a detail, lesson learned)